.. _before_installing:

Before You Install
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Acknowledging this Work
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If you wish to include results generated using the *FEDI* package in a publication, please include a statement such as the following to acknowledge our work:

    *Processing was performed using the FEDI package* (`Snoussi et al., 2025 <https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00490>`__).

    Haykel Snoussi, Davood Karimi, Onur Afacan, Mustafa Utkur, Ali Gholipour; HAITCH: A framework for distortion and motion correction in fetal multi-shell diffusion-weighted MRI. Imaging Neuroscience 2025.

For BibTeX citation, you can use:

.. code-block:: bibtex

   @article{snoussi2025haitch,
     title={Haitch: A framework for distortion and motion correction in fetal multi-shell diffusion-weighted mri},
     author={Snoussi, Haykel and Karimi, Davood and Afacan, Onur and Utkur, Mustafa and Gholipour, Ali},
     journal={Imaging Neuroscience},
     volume={3},
     pages={imag\_a\_00490},
     year={2025},
     publisher={MIT Press 255 Main Street, 9th Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA~…}
   }

.. NOTE::

   Many individual methods included in the FEDI software have been published
   in scientific journals and should be cited accordingly. Please check the
   references listed in the help section of each method to ensure proper 
   acknowledgment of the scientists behind these contributions.

Disclaimer
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The software described in this manual is provided **"as is"** without any warranty. It was developed for **research purposes only** and is **not intended for medical or diagnostic use**. The authors and distributors make no guarantees regarding the accuracy or usefulness of results generated by these tools or their derivatives and are not liable for any damages resulting from their use.

License
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FEDI is free software distributed under the `LGPL-2.1 license <https://www.mrtrix.org/>`__. FEDI is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but **WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY**, including but not limited to the implied warranties of **MERCHANTABILITY** or **FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE**.
